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Author: William Marion Runyan Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile Refrain First Line: If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile Lyrics: 1. If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile, We will help to shorten each long mile; If we speak the words of love and cheer Happy days will make a happy year. Refrain If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile, We will help to shorten the long, long mile; It will help to make our lives divine, If, with Jesus’ love we shine, shine, shine. 2. If we do kind deeds in a kindly way, Friends will gladly greet us day by day, And our presence, then, will welcome be, All because our happiness they see. [Refrain] 3. So we’ll sweetly smile and we’ll brightly shine, And the cross of Jesus be our sign; For we want this world to better be By our loving service, glad and free. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile]

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[If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Robert Beverly Incipit: 34511 55622 11776 Used With Text: If We Brightly Shine

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If We Brightly Shine

Author: William Marion Runyan Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #3154 First Line: If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile Refrain First Line: If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile Lyrics: 1. If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile, We will help to shorten each long mile; If we speak the words of love and cheer Happy days will make a happy year. Refrain If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile, We will help to shorten the long, long mile; It will help to make our lives divine, If, with Jesus’ love we shine, shine, shine. 2. If we do kind deeds in a kindly way, Friends will gladly greet us day by day, And our presence, then, will welcome be, All because our happiness they see. [Refrain] 3. So we’ll sweetly smile and we’ll brightly shine, And the cross of Jesus be our sign; For we want this world to better be By our loving service, glad and free. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile]

If We Brightly Shine

Author: William M. Runyan Hymnal: Victorious Revival Songs #96 (1925) First Line: If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile Refrain First Line: If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile Languages: English Tune Title: [If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile]

If We Brightly Shine

Author: William M. Runyan Hymnal: Songs of the Great Salvation #120 (1918) First Line: If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile Refrain First Line: If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile Languages: English Tune Title: [If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile]

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William M. Runyan

1870 - 1957 Person Name: William Marion Runyan Author of "If We Brightly Shine" in The Cyber Hymnal Showing early musical promise, William Marion Runyan (b. Marion, NY, 1870; d. Pittsburg, KS, 1957) was a substitute church organist by the age of twelve. He became a Methodist minister in 1891 and served several churches in Kansas but turned to evangelism in 1903; he worked for the Central Methodist Conference for the next twenty years. Following that service, Runyan became pastor at the Federated Church at John Brown University, Sulphur Springs, Arkansas. Editor of Christian Workers Magazine, he also served the Moody Bible Institute and was an editor for Hope Publishing Company until his retirement in 1948. Runyan wrote a number of hymn texts, gospel songs, and hymn tunes. Bert Polman

D. B. Towner

1850 - 1919 Person Name: Daniel Brink Towner Composer of "[If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile]" in The Cyber Hymnal Used pseudonyms Robert Beverly, T. R. Bowden ============================== Towner, Daniel B. (Rome, Pennsylvania, 1850--1919). Attended grade school in Rome, Penn. when P.P. Bliss was teacher. Later majored in music, joined D.L. Moody, and in 1893 became head of the music department at Moody Bible Institute. Author of more than 2,000 songs. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives